Then we were off for the day, first stop: heart stopping ride in an open cage over a wide chasm, hundreds of feet above the valley floor to some waterfalls. The ride was incredible. The hike was beautiful. The falls... I didn't see much because the boys took off ahead of me and freaked me out when I came to a crossroads having no idea where they were. This is dense jungle and its LOUD! So all the yelling I was doing to find them was in vain. We found each other eventually, but I was too exhausted to climb another trail.
Then we walked to an equally impressive canopy tour AKA a jungle zip line. I took one look and decided I might actually die of fright if I did it, but the boys were game to go. It was too hard to get a photo of the magnitude, but the first photo gives you an idea....zoom into the white spot in the middle upper canopy, that's a person about halfway across one of the 12 lines in the tour.
We walked back to town hitting the start of the afternoon downpour to have an early dinner. Then the boys wanted to get a delicious brownie from the cacao farm. They snarfed those down and ran to the soccer field to play once again in the pouring rain, leaving me in the lounge to update everyone, listen to the amazing sounds of the jungle and enjoy the solitude.
Your stories are great! Fun to read and easy to imagine. Love that you shared a few rough moments too- those are inevitable but worth enduring!! Love you all and miss you mucho. P.S. The plantains look yummy.
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